Plant Manager
Role Overview
Manage the overall performance of a recycling manufacturing plant to support safe, efficient, cost-effective, consistent production and meet quality, delivery, and customer requirements.
Oversee day-to-day operations, production planning, manpower, maintenance, quality, HSE, raw material utilization, inventory, and continuous improvement.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position Summary
Manage the overall performance of a recycling manufacturing plant to support safe, efficient, cost-effective, consistent production and meet quality, delivery, and customer requirements.
Oversee day-to-day operations, production planning, manpower, maintenance, quality, HSE, raw material utilization, inventory, and continuous improvement.
Plant and Production Management
- Manage daily plant operations and achieve production targets.
- Plan production based on customer orders, material availability, and capacity; optimize recycling, washing, shredding, agglomeration, extrusion, and granulation lines.
- Monitor output, downtime, yield, rejection, waste, and OEE; ensure compliance with specifications and SOPs and address bottlenecks.
Materials, Quality, and Maintenance
- Coordinate raw material and consumable availability; monitor material input and output, reduce losses, improve processing, and maintain batch traceability.
- Ensure products meet specifications; coordinate testing, investigate complaints and quality deviations, implement corrective actions, and maintain records.
- Coordinate preventive and breakdown maintenance, monitor equipment availability, and arrange repairs, upgrades, and improvements.
People, HSE, and Cost Control
- Plan manpower, supervise plant teams, allocate shifts, monitor performance, attendance, discipline, and productivity, and identify training needs.
- Ensure compliance with UAE environmental and occupational health and safety requirements; promote safety, enforce PPE and procedures, inspect for hazards, and ensure proper material handling.
- Monitor production costs, electricity, water, manpower, and consumables; identify efficiency opportunities and report KPIs to management.
Inventory and Continuous Improvement
- Coordinate receipt, storage, stock records, batch identification, and movement of raw materials and finished products; minimize losses and coordinate dispatches.
- Improve productivity, yield, quality, and efficiency; apply Lean/5S or other suitable practices, lead root-cause analysis, and monitor plant KPIs and improvement plans.
Certifications and Compliance
- Support implementation and maintenance of ISO, GRS, and other applicable certification requirements.
- Ensure compliance with applicable UAE environmental, occupational health, and safety requirements.
Key Performance Indicators
Track monthly production, plan achievement, machine utilization/OEE, yield, material recovery, rejection, downtime, and breakdown hours.
Track utility consumption, production cost per metric ton, on-time delivery, complaints, manpower productivity, HSE incidents, preventive maintenance compliance, and process waste.
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